It's been a long time since I've played a story-rich indie with the presentation quality of a big studio - this game is it!

This is a psychological thriller that will keep you digging for 15-20 hours, exploring themes of sanity, paranoia and psychology while keeping you engaged with first-person shooter action and some puzzle solving. It's a refreshing break from heaps of repetitive titles full of bad voice acting, asset flips and gameplay where you grind the same menial task over and over ad nauseum. No moment feels boring, dull or pointless. The gameplay feels solid, the music, sounds, environment and graphics all feel very solid too, There's not an iota of jank.

My only nitpick is that while the story is well put together and is presented masterfully, the final parts of the story feel a little bit rushed and a little cliche, in the sense that in the last hour or two a big revelation is dropped on you with massive implications, yet it is not really explored much deeper before you beat the game and the credits roll. So rather instead of a "to be continued" suspense it creates a bit of frustration or a slight disbelief. It feels like the final revelation in the story deserved some more time to explore before closure.

This is a solid 9.5/10 and well worth the money if you're looking for a 15-20 hour psychological thriller adventure. For the best experience go into this game blind. There is also some hidden things to find and see for completionists. There's a cat that you can pet.

Very apparent a lot of effort here. A+

In Sound Mind is a good game, but don't raise very high expectations due to Overwhelmingly Positive reviews and fairly high base price.

While many people praise its horror or psychological horror element, I find it's rather weak even compared with some non-3D games. The atmosphere and music did a great job of emphasizing overall horror feel. But giving players power to fight back greatly diminished it. So you may want to play on hard difficulty or/and choose stealth as primary approach.

The gameplay puzzles are great. In each patient's area, the game often introduces new and unique puzzles. Although being unique with lack of explicit tutorial may confuse you on few occasions. There's also some platforming, while it could be mildly annoying, the game may spawn more platforms after few failed attempts which is nice. And for better or worse, the amount of resources (flashlight battery, ammo, healing, etc.) is very generous on normal difficulty.

Early part of the story failed to catch my interest. Although halfway through the game, I began to enjoy the story along with its veiled mysteries. And while there's no real problem with the ending, it feels anti-climatic for me.

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As long as you don't have very high expectations, I would recommend this game. Although considering gameplay duration and some flaws, you probably want to wait for sales.